A fringe anti-vaccine movement took advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic to bring conspiracy theories to a much wider audience, ...

Whether COVID-19 was unleashed by a laboratory mishap or spilled over from animals remains an enduring, fiercely contested ...

Like many other young people, Amelie feels that the COVID-19 pandemic—and its procession of lockdowns and restrictions—marked ...

Frank Wampol had a dark realization when he came across some alarming data a few years ago: More than 5,000 male construction ...

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US health officials announced Friday they were awarding $590 million to Moderna to develop mRNA vaccines against influenza, ...

Every 40 seconds, someone in the United States has a stroke. For survivors of the most common type of stroke, called an ...

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Many vaccines work by introducing a protein to the body that resembles part of a virus. Ideally, the immune system will ...

Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a life-threatening genetic disease affecting multiple organ systems, with pancreatic dysfunction ...

Cancer remains one of the most complex diseases, with its diverse molecular profiles and cellular compositions posing ...